Actually it’ll be like every other election. Even without the decay of media and foreign influence, we live in a country that elects one party. They stay in power long enough to get complacent and stupid, so we replace them with another and do it all over again.
Trudeau, 10 years. Harper, 10 years, Chretien, 10 years. (Okay…Paul Martin was only three years, but he was appointed first), Brian Mulroney, 9 years (We pretend Kim Campbell never happened)
Whether right of left, we give every party in power so much leeway that they stay in power forever before we finally can’t ignore their bullshit…and then we over-correct in the other direction and do it to the other side of the aisle.
Literally since 1984 it’s essentially been Left-Right alternative every decade or so.
The current conservative rise is neither surprising nor new if you’ve been awake for the last 40 years. It’s as Canadian as Maple Syrup.
When trying to get the public to vote against their own interests, like in the case of free and fair news media, first sabotage the media, then claim they’re not doing their jobs. Cripple a horse so we think we have to shoot it.
People should ask themselves when they started hating the CBC and look into who owned it and what policies and interests were guiding their coverage.
Like honestly, it’s such an obvious play but it keeps fucking working.
To be fair the CBC is really shit in terms of content especially compared to what radio-canada outputs. The CBC is much more clickbaity and sensionalist while radio-canada is more neutral and facts based
But compared to the other online news media cbc is consistently better than those.
Exactly, the bar is low but I still appreciate what we have.
You just proved my point without reading it.
Yeah I’m just slow
So many loud uneducated buffoons.
I’ve always understood that you never refer to the Prime Minister by only their name, that’s just rude and lacks any class. It wasn’t “Justin” or “Trudeau”, it was Prime Minister Trudeau or Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The cons are really the party of the uneducated and no manners. They’ll get in for a term, fuck it up and get tossed out. How it always works.
Wouldn’t it be weird if at least one party didn’t fuck up and get tossed out every time.
Wouldn’t it be great if there were no political parties at all? No jockeying for power, no backroom deals, no “donor dinners”?
The problem is setting up a system where leaders can not be influenced by business and can not stack the deck to have an advantage after they leave office. Both things that no politician would ever implement.
Banning party whips would be a good start
Except Harper. He got in with a minority. Fucked around a little, prorogued parliament under threat of a coalition that would have shifted him into the minority, won that election with a majority, then fucked around even more for 5 years.
Then, he got voted out.
Pwah-lie-every was Harper’s protégé. Expect every shenanigan there is.
The yellow threw me off a little—it made me think of the national Post—but this page is better. 😁🙂
I’m not familiar with them either but I’ll be watching for their coverage now.
The Tyee are consistently excellent.
